After reading your article on VaccinateCA, I walked away with a strong impression that “americans got the government they deserve”. What’s your thought on this?
I am extremely skeptical of desert narratives and feel they frequently blind us to actions which are in our locus of control and +EV in terms of impacts which are relevant to our moral calculi, like (as a not entirely random example) starting a crash effort to fix the government’s manifest failure to act effectively during a pandemic with the goal of saving lives.
I am also extremely skeptical of desert narratives generally, but the above seems like a sufficient reason to reprogram oneself to not weight them highly.
After reading your article on VaccinateCA, I walked away with a strong impression that “americans got the government they deserve”. What’s your thought on this?
I am extremely skeptical of desert narratives and feel they frequently blind us to actions which are in our locus of control and +EV in terms of impacts which are relevant to our moral calculi, like (as a not entirely random example) starting a crash effort to fix the government’s manifest failure to act effectively during a pandemic with the goal of saving lives.
I am also extremely skeptical of desert narratives generally, but the above seems like a sufficient reason to reprogram oneself to not weight them highly.